I’m glad I took the time to keep a written record of our week. It’s so easy to forget about everything that happens on a vacation if you don’t write it down. I usually did my journaling in the evening before I went to bed, putting everything down on the page in pencil rather than […]
Category: Sketches
Sketches from Maine: Part 2 – Exploring
Since we got to Maine a day before my workshop was to begin, we had time to play a little on Saturday before checking into our rental cottage. We sketched at Pemaquid Point in the morning (awesome!) then shopped awhile in the cute little village of Damariscotta. (All sketches were done in a 9″ x […]
Sketches from Maine: Part 1 – On Our Way
Well, after all the lead-in of photos and Facebook posts, are you ready to finally see some sketches from my sketching trip to Maine? Here’s the first batch, with more to follow tomorrow…… Ink & watercolor + gel pen + stamping with watercolor The sketchbook I took with me was a 9″ x 6″ Stillman […]
Student Sketches from Maine
Experience varies among my students on this trip. Some have an art background and have painted before while others are new to sketching. I think everyone is learning a lot though, and just the fact that we’re out painting every day is enough make all of us improve. So I thought I’d share some of […]
Musings from Maine
I’m in Maine! We’re having a wonderful week of painting, fellowship, feasting and fun. My mother and I left home last Thursday with a loaded van and two friends who were joining us for the week. That’s Cathy, me, my mother Saundra, and Candy, ready for a r-e-a-l-ly long drive. It’s 16 hours from my […]
Enjoying Spring and Planning for Fall
Seems like everything’s blossoming, growing, and greening-up time of year. It’s so much fun to walk around the yard every day and discover what poked up through the soil overnight. Echinacea, hosta, and primroses are all growing, and the bleeding heart is covered with buds. The forsythia was spectacular this year – I brought a […]
Crazy for Daffodils!
Daffydowndilly has come up to town, in a yellow petticoat and a green gown.~ Traditional nursery rhyme I taught a lesson on painting yellow daffodils the other day for my April “Sketching at Summerhill” party, and one of my sweet friends who came to paint brought me a gorgeous bouquet of daffodils from her garden. […]
A Change of Season
Spring is here! Flocks of robins are hopping all over our yard and the snow is finally gone! 8-1/2″ x 11″, ink & watercolor in a Stillman & Birn Beta series sketchbook. Drawings done with a black Pigma Micron 01 pen. Last Friday was officially the first day of spring, and even though the temperatures […]
Travel Sketch Kit + Texas Travel Sketches
(Continuing my posting of sketches from the Monologue Basics A5 sketchbook that I reviewed here.) My husband and I spent five days in Texas last fall visiting friends in San Antonio. I didn’t think I’d have a lot of time to sketch, so I took a minimum of supplies, but it turned out to be […]
Snow Day!
We have a SNOW DAY! Yippee! I still get a thrill from being snowed in. We’ve gotten ten inches of snow since last evening and everything is cancelled, so I thought I’d share a snowy sketch with you today. This is one I painted a few weeks ago of the view out our driveway… Ink […]
